Display-rack.



PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908. G. S. GOPP & L. FRANK.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7. 1907.

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CURTIS S. GOPP AND LOUIS FRANK, OF JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Jan. 28,1908.

Application filed November '7. 1907. Serial No. @1046.

'l '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CURTIS S. Corr and LOUIS FRANK, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of hz'lorgan andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDisplay-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to display racks for exhibiting bolts of lace,braid, ribbon, etc., in an attractive manner and consists of adevice'comprising grooved shelves supported by step-forms havinguprights for holding their upper ends, removably secured thereto. Aninverted step form is removably secured to each of said step forms bymeans of dowelpins and serve to hold the shelves in position while theupper edges of the inverted step forms are provided with transversenotches or grooves to receive rods to hold the upper ends of the boltsof lace, etc., supported by the grooved shelves. Other rods are providedhaving loops to engage the upper and lower of the first mentioned rodsto divide the space occupied by the rack into sections for the receptionof the bolts.

The details of the construction of our invention will be described.hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure1 is a front view of a show case with our improved display rack therein,Fig. 2, a side view, Fig. 3, a detail view of one of the end supportsdismembered, and Fig. 1, a detail view of one of the division. rods.

In the drawings similar reference characters indicate correspondingparts through.-

out the several views.

A indicates a show case in which our improved display rack may bemounted though it may be set upon a table, counter or any suitable placeif preferred.

1 indicates a board or plate having one end resting on the bottom of theshow case A or 011 the table or counter and the other end supported byan upright post 2 having its lower end secured to the bottom. of theshow case and its upper end provided with a longitudinal groove 3 toreceive the upper end of the step form 1., which is secured therein by anail or screw. The upper edge of plate or board 1 is provided withrectangular notches 4 forming supports for grooved shelves 6 indicatesanother plate or board having its lower edge provided with recta ngularand secured in position by means of dowel pins 8 on the upper edge ofplate 1 fitting in sockets 9 in the lower edge of plate 6. The upperedge of plate 6 also fits into groove 3 in post 2 and may be secured tothe post by means of a nail or screw as in the case of plate or board 1.When the shelves 5 are placed on plate 1 and plate 6 is in position itwill be understood that they are securely clamped in position by thesides of rectangular notches 4 and 7 except the lowermost shelf onplate 1. To hold this shelf in position I provide a projection 10 onplate 6 that engages the groove in said lowermost shelf and securelyholds it in position.

The upper edge of plate 6 is provided with a series of notches 11 toreceive rods 12 to support the upper portion of reels 13 that rest onshelves 5.

14 indicates division rods having loops 15 at their ends to engage theupper and lowermost rods 12 to divide the rack into sections to insureplacing the reels of lace, etc., neatly therein.

16 indicates a strip secured on the upper edge of each'plate 6 to holdthe rods 12 in place in notches 11 the strips that are secured to theend plates being provided with a downwardly extending portion 17 on theoutside of the rack to cover the ends of notches 11 and hold rods 12 inposition. The end boards 1 are also provided with a strip 18 on theoutside of the rack to cover the ends of shelves 5.

W hen the rack is installed in a show-case a shelf 5 is placed on thebottom of the show case in front of the boards 1 as shown at 19 and thereels 13 supported thereby lean against the lowermost rod 12 and thereels resting on the lowermost shelf supported by plate 1 leans againstthe second rod and so on, but when the rack is set up on a counter ortable the shelf 19 may be dispensed with and the lowermost rod 12 willserve to prevent the reels 13 on the lowermost shelf 5 from fallingforward.

Having thus described our invention what we claim is 1. In a displayrack, plates having rectangular notches in their upper edges, shelvessupported. in said notches, and other plates provided with notchescomplementary to the notches in the first-mentioned plates and removablysecured thereto to hold the shelves in position, substantially as shownand denotches 7 complementary to the notches 4 scribed.

the shelves in position, the upper edges of the last described platesprovided with notches, and rods secured in said notches, substantiallyas shown and described.

3. In a display rack, plates having rectangular notches, in their upperedges, shelves supported in said notches, dowel pins secured to saidplates, other plates having sockets to receive said dowel pins, theirlower edges formed with rectangular notches complementary to therectangular notches in the first-mentioned plates and their upper edgesformed with other notches, and rods resting in the last mentionednotches, substantially as shown and described.

4. A display rack comprising plates having rectangular notches in theirupper edges, grooved shelves supported in said notches, dowel pinssecured to said plates, other plates having sockets to receive saiddowel pins, their lower edges formed with rectangular notchescomplementary to the rectangu- 5. In a display rack, plates havingrectangular notches in their upper edges, a plurality of shelvessupported on said notches, and means to simultaneously clamp the shelvesto each of said plates, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a display rack, plates having rectangular notches, shelvessupported on said notches, and other plates removably secured to thefirst-mentioned plates to hold the shelves in position, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony whereof we hereto aHiX our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses.

CURTIS S. COPP.

LOUIS FRANK. Witnesses:

CHARLES A. JOHNSON, J. W.IELLIOTT, Jr.

